New/Copyright Edition. Undated, c1870. "A New Edition, Carefully revised, with Notes and Illustrations." Text printed in double columns. Two volumes bound as one, each with a frontispiece. Original red cloth, decoratively blocked and lettered in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, inscription (1937) and owner's name stamps on prelims, otherwise very good. A satirical comic novel concerning a draper's assistant who acquires a title, fortune and a seat in Parliament through fraud and corruption. Often found rebound in leather, this is an attractive issue in publisher's cloth.